I feel lucky being one of the few people on this planet to have heard these two wonderful records. It's just a matter of fact when it comes to music like this that some will struggle to call it music and have a distaste for it and others, for better or worse, will feel detached and distant from its jaded yet deeply romantic motions. Bill is the kind of vocalist that you either click with or don't. He's softly spoken, a tad grumbly and dishevelled, but every word he says is dripping with honesty ... read more
With passing traffic as ambience and a ticking car indicator as percussion, ‘On The Motorway’ sees Adrian Moffat submit to the advances of the city and all of her perfumed promises. He disregards the message on a lorry’s canvas, that “home is the most important place in the world”. For him, home is where the heart sinks into a dirty sofa and resigns itself to the rest of its banal and routine life, same as everyone. But he can push all that aside, all the checklist ... read more
A grumbly middle aged scotsman delivering spoken word missives about his various romantic and sexual inadequacies over a backdrop of light jazz and piano pieces should set alarm bells ringing but those fears are misplaced - the end results are unexpectedly endearing.
Of course any Arab Strap or long standing Mogwai fans out there should feel instantly at home with Aidan Moffat's beer battered vocals.
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